Photographer Kent Treptow was assigned to document...

Photographer Kent Treptow was assigned to document a filmmaking

session on Wednesday by Ernesto Alvarez, 13, Christopher Pacheco, 12,

and Dylan Abel, 11, from the Westside Boys & Girls Club. The club was

given a grant to acquire a new camcorder, a digital camera, scanner

and tripod by electronics retailer Best Buy and the grant required

the club to produce a movie. Kent went with the crew to the Newport

Beach Pier to work on the movie. As the three exercised their

creativity, Kent used his own keen eye and made use of the dramatic

weather to create this image. The leading lines of the cloud

formations are echoed by the lines of the pier and lead the eye, as

triangular patterns do, into the silhouetted shapes of the

filmmakers. With the perfect separation of Ernesto holding the

camera, the elements all come together to give us a photo that not

only tells the story, but grabs our attention.

-- Steve McCrank, photo editor